DevOps Engineer
We have the energy and boldness of a start-up and the expertise and pragmatism of a scale-up. The result: a team of both young and seasoned professionals led by supportive and approachable managers who give recognition and rewards for hard work. You’ll be working in a fast-paced tech environment with open feedback culture and room for initiatives as well as ideas. You’ll have plenty of room to apply your personality, express yourself, and impact our course of action with your insights or ideas.
Our ambition is to build and sell a product that helps everyone everywhere (starting with Europe) to work smarter, so we want our team to reflect that. We believe that a diverse, inclusive working environment is crucial to realise that ambition, so we’re committed to continue to build and cherish a culture where every colleague feels welcome, appreciated and heard.
Your Role
- You utilize your extensive experience within the DevOps domain to enhance efficiency, performance, and security of our AWS-hosted cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes services.
- You are able to optimize build/test/deployment workflows with attention to developer efficiency, performance, and quality.
- Once you have familiarized yourself with our infrastructure, you keep an eye on overall infrastructure cost and propose improvements to reduce costs.
- Our development teams can rely on you to provide analysis and assist them with advanced troubleshooting.
- Besides that, you will closely collaborate with development, QA, and customer support teams on a daily basis to ensure technical alignment and improve our cloud platforms and customer experience.
- Together with your co-workers, you participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and maintain updated documentation.
Job requirements
You’d be a great fit for this role if you:
- Have at least 5 years of experience in DevOps practices with a development background in a SaaS context.
- Have a set of technical competences that matches with what we are looking for in a candidate. Specifically, we are looking for people with these hard skills:
- Cloud Services on Amazon Web Services ( AWS )
- Core Services: EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Cloudfront
- IAM & Access Policies
- Cost Monitoring & Control
- Scaling & Load Balancing
- Web Application Firewall
- Observability
- Log Management & Infrastructure
- Monitoring, Trending, Alerting & Metrics
- Distributed Tracing
- Container Orchestration & Infrastructure
- Kubernetes, Docker
- Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Ansible
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- ArgoCD, FluxCD, Kustomize, GitOps
- Networking
- Ingress, Routing, Headers
- Load Balancers & Traffic Management
- Security
- Infrastructure ( Systems, Perimeter, Kubernetes, Docker )
- Code ( SCA, SAST )
- Vulnerability Management
- Programming tools
- Bash, YAML, Python / NodeJS / Golang
- Databases
- MySQL, Redis, Memcached
- Cloud Services on Amazon Web Services ( AWS )
- Are an advanced troubleshooter. You understand exactly how to create a detailed Root Cause Analysis after/during an incident and implement a future-proof fix.
- Can make strategic decisions to make things great and have an active role in the overall infrastructure & devops design & implementation.
- Understand what business strategy means and know how to implement that using technical solutions.
- Help improve customer experience by introducing pro-active change (both technical and non-technical).
- Can be relied on by the larger engineering team ( Operations, Quality Assurance, Development , 2nd line support ) and our support departments for properly written documentation & guidelines and you know how to share knowledge to the teams!
- Have good communication skills and consider yourself to be a team player.
- Are not afraid to speak your mind strongly and convincingly to get your point across.
- Are able to express yourself fluently in English, both spoken and written.
